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Get up-to-date on Australian screen industry news and hear from local writers, producers, directors and more. Created and hosted by journalist and screenwriter Caris Bizzaca.
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Gemma Crofts: screenwriting, script editing and development takeaways (opens the original)
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Today's episode features Gemma Crofts, an award-winning screenwriter, a script editor and former development executive, with more than fifteen years' experience across film and television development. Throughout the podcast Gemma talks about what a script editor does, takeaways from her time as a development executive, how to understand what the note behind the note is, what she enjoys about working across different genres, and much more. As a writer, Gemma has worked on shows for Netflix, Frema
Director Sarah Goodes: taking career leaps (opens the original)
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Today's episode features Sarah Goodes, an Award-winning Australian theatre director who started Jacaranda Productions in 2025 with actor/ producer Diana Glenn after they met at AFTRS. Their goal? To create multi medium stories by finding stories that start in theatre and developing them into TV , film and online productions - and vice versa. Throughout the podcast Sarah talks about making the decision to expand into a new career path and benefits and challenges of that, the differences and simil
Queer Screen CEO Benson Wu: film festival advice and impact (opens the original)
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Today's episode features Benson Wu, the CEO of Queer Screen. Throughout the podcast, Benson talks about for submitting to film festivals, why they are important to both audiences and filmmakers and why he volunteered at Queer Screen at the beginning of his career. Benson also started the Taiwan Film Festival in Australia and has worked at Sydney Film Festival, SXSW Sydney, Taiwan International Queer Film Festival and Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival. Benson also jo
My Brilliant Career EP, writer and showrunner Liz Doran (opens the original)
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Today's episode features Liz Doran, a screenwriter, showrunner and one of the executive producers of the new six-part series My Brilliant Career, which is produced by Jungle Entertainment and releases on Netflix on August 13. A series adaptation of Miles Franklin's beloved Australian novel, My Brilliant Career is set in 1900 Australia and follows Sybylla, a shockingly modern young woman with one searing ambition - to be a writer, while her family is determined to marry her off. For her, the choi
Renée Broome: working in the Home and Away script department (opens the original)
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Today's episode features Renée Broome, an in-house Screenwriter and Script Editor at Home and Away, who's written dozens of episodes of the series and worked on more than 1,000 episodes in her various roles in the script department over the past nine years. Throughout the episode, Renée talks through the script department and what each role is – from Script Coordinator to Storyliner and Script Editor - as well as her experience working in each. Renée also talks to what a typical week for her loo
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